Does the entire Innocent Smoothies aesthetic strike you as deeply fucking irritating?

aye but both of those adult bins are male - an important breakthrough for representation of lgbtq+ refuse containers imo

do they think that by announcing the birth of the two bins people will be pleased at having yet more complicated waste disposal practices?

not sure if this counts as Innocent Smoothies aesthetic so much as just rubbish marketing

Hope all is well, I have been trying to reach you over the past few weeks to discuss your 2017 cloud based projects. However, I have not heard back.

This leads me to believe that...

a) at the moment, your company sees no value in taking advantage of all the Google Cloud Platform has to offer

or....

b) 2017 is not the year for your company to realize the performance, scalability and savings of moving to the Google Cloud Platform

or possibly....

c) you are trapped under something heavy, just outside of reach of your PC desperately trying to respond

Whatever the case may be, in efforts to give you some time to mull it over or find availability, this will be my last correspondence. If you would like to discuss any aspect of your cloud computing initiatives via a google hangouts you can book an appointment here . I am always a call or email away.

For the record, this is the goofiest, most infantilizing rejection letter I've gotten since, maybe, first year of college? pic.twitter.com/Mzuf9qil7O

— Jason Scott (@textfiles) September 1, 2017

This actually made me shout OH FUCK OFF at my phone.

lol, when i saw this thread bumped i was JUST about to post that here!

The very same here. Amazing.

https://scontent-lhr3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t31.0-8/fr/cp0/e15/q65/21200747_1928459190514376_3232820399731925753_o.jpg?efg=eyJpIjoidCJ9&oh=a7f9dd4306c176e0b487c14c57bb48d4&oe=5A20C888

The scope of newEpicJob is a bit limited.

And those single quotes around Uber look decidedly non-ascii.

Advert/warning on the All4 app. This must be one of the worst things like this I've ever seen.

http://i.cubeupload.com/dsGBCl.png

gnnnnnggggghhhhhh

the fucking ads make All4 unwatchable, if you make the mistake of pausing, forwarding, rewinding you get subjected to another bunch of unskippable ads

that's why I love illegal torrent sites. At least even when the viewing is predictably dire, I can console myself that at least I'm successfully depriving this appalling channel of a few clicks.

Good grief

That is fucking monstrous

It's not just 'business transactions presented in kid-speak', it's knowing adult to knowing adult in knowingly pretend kid-speak

my line in full

A: the grown-ups are all gone, we will not see them again in our lifetimes
B: bcz it's up to us now god help us
C: deeper magic from before the dawn of modernity :|
D: ^^^a fuckton of this, it's everywhere, it's the ground we all walk on and it's gone live again

― mark s, Thursday, 7 September 2017 18:59 (one week ago) Bookmark

Not sure if this belongs here but

https://i.imgur.com/8YtBQgT.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/GEu1ysI.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/L3IMCdW.jpg

I might be getting old and boring, but I'm so glad life has led me away from having to meet people like Atticus

Is that supposed to be some sort of super-meta level of irony? Like hipsters are now so self-aware they're being ironic about themselves?
Or did the copywriter get the brief and literally copy and paste the audience description into the body text of the advert?

"His beer crafty and his food street" is ultraviolet level ugh

Seriously, if it wasn't for the text in the tiny black rectangle at the bottom, I'd have thought this was an extract from the creative agency's pitch to their client, not the actual advert itself

that is exactly how it reads, yeah

No way do any of the Atticuses I've met have a "quiet" distaste

Unfortunately Atticus is going to be living 10 minutes away from my front door

wonder what atticus' ilx login is

From the website:

https://i.imgur.com/0qtIv8t.png

gnnnnnggggghhhhhh

― Mr. Eulon Mask, urging the UN to ban the "homicide robot" (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 19 September 2017 20:34 (two weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is amazing. i'm amazed

Also the flats are being built on the site of Manic Street Preachers' old studio.

surely this is just really bad copy - like nobody self-identifies as a hipster, isn't that the entire thing that makes the word so frustrating? nobody is going to read that and think "yes that's me, i'm that guy", even subconsciously? maybe i'm putting too much faith in people.

frustrating? nobody is going to read that and think "yes that's me, i'm that guy",

"He is a pioneer of style and architect of his own subculture"

I'm guessing they're not trying to attract the hipster, but the conceited ageing douchebag hipster who manages him

"critically self-aware" = life-threatening levels of self-awareness

Yeah maybe. I suppose to an extent any of these "types" created to sell a given brand are deeply hateful. I've done bits of copy for some hotels in Dubai in the last few years and I feel dirty and sick inside each time I see the finished brochure.

xpost

the export of the "hipster" brand seems to have done more damage outside of big cities like london than the same thing did within the metropolis itself. like the amount of bullshit trickledown is off the scale, ime, bbq and burger restaurants everywhere, terrible copies of the london copies of nyc - just really grim.

Also the flats are being built on the site of Manic Street Preachers' old studio.

so it's not all bad

xpost

Yeah, even in the London suburbs where I live, mostly middle-aged and older people, gentrification seems geared towards the 20 and 30somethings only - everything's a coffee shop for new parents, a chicken shack, a brunch place with the stereo on too loud etc. We're in boring Zone 3 and the biggest development is a boutique hotel.

xxp true dat. as though the caricature of the odious 2011 hipster strawman has been co-opted by smaller cities and commuter towns into an aspirational figure. While OG London hipsters feigned individuality, 2017's suburban hipsters WANT to drink in cafes with cartoon moustaches painted on the window as a matter of course.

On a different note, while the "ISA" is grating on product packaging and promotional emails, the one place I can't stand it is on job adverts. Seeing '...and we even get to clock off early on the first Friday of every month YA-HOOOOO!!' on a job description definitely puts me off applying. If I wrote my CV like this, I doubt I'd get considered for an interview

a big fuck off to Oatly

https://i.imgur.com/AzfV3cY.png

that's p cynical, almost admirably so, at least as far as highlighting many people's blithe barely real interest in "street art"

it caused me vaguely irritably to read the whole thing when i passed it on the bus (which was stopped at that point): so i guess job done!

"hey, maybe you stopped to say just the word 'look' at this wall, thinking it's something you know nothing about and hence could be interesting. well it's not, it's an ad for some fucking oat milk. did you take a photo of it too? you fucking idiot. anyway drink our oat milk."

"oat milk, filling the gaping empty holes riddled through your terrible eternal tourist existence"

i mean to be fair however they advertise this it has to conclude "drink our oat milk" and since that's the actual problem moment for most people they might as well go for broke

like jonathan glazer's ad for flake (not used):
https://vimeo.com/21190241

these self-aware, faux-cringingly-apologetic ads are a fucking scourge

it also looks like it was designed by someone who’s never actually seen any street art, so it even fails on its own terms ffs

yeah the font just looks like bakery product #1

a better ad would be "continue to consume oats" with an image depicting a vast trough with people bent double over it, desperately scooping oat milk into their mouth with their hands

maybe a factory full of grinning workers, each squeezing an oat between their thumb and forefinger to express the oats’ sweet, precious milk